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UEFA bans AC Milan for 2 seasons - News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)

UEFA bans AC Milan for 2 seasons - News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) : UEFA hands AC Milan  a two-year ban from European competitions following a breach of FFP rules.

Ethical Hacking; The Coolest Way to Make Big Bucks

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Image copyright HACKERONE Image caption James Kettle took up hacking because he was bored with his degree Bug hunters: The hackers earning big bucks... ethically By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News 15 April 2018 The term hacker is often used pejoratively, but the ability to spot weaknesses in companies' software and cyber-security systems is in high demand. Ethical hackers are now earning big bucks and the industry is growing. James Kettle is a bug hunter - not of the insect kind, but of software. He scans through pages of code looking for mistakes - weaknesses that criminals could exploit to break into a company's network and steal data. His computer science degree was a little slow-paced for his tastes so he looked around for something else to do and came across "bug bounty" programmes run by Google and browser maker Mozilla. These are schemes that pay cash to hackers for spotting mistakes, or bugs, in com...

AFRICAN CONFIDENCE MAN

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The playboy who got away with $242m – using ‘black magic’ 18 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Twitter   Share Image caption Photo: Miami Herald One day in August 1995 a man called Foutanga Babani Sissoko walked into the head office of the Dubai Islamic Bank and asked for a loan to buy a car. The manager agreed, and Sissoko invited him home for dinner. It was the prelude, writes the BBC's Brigitte Scheffer, to one of the most audacious confidence tricks of all time. Over dinner, Sissoko made a startling claim. He told the bank manager, Mohammed Ayoub, that he had magic powers. With these powers, he could take a sum of money and double it. He invited his Emirati friend to come again, and to bring some cash. Black magic is condemned by Islam as blasphemous. Even so, there's still a widespread belief in it, and Ayoub was taken in by the colourful and mysterious businessman from a remote village in Mali. When he arrived at Sissoko'...